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so I want to talk about ketones in your

brain your brain actually does not need

to adapt to ketosis let’s say you have

this idea that you want to start the

ketogenic diet and you start getting

brain fog and someone tells you well

that’s because you’re in the transition

phase and it takes a while to transition

into full ketosis okay now that’s

partially true but the brain is an

exception and it doesn’t need to adapt

anything it doesn’t need to create new

machinery or new enzymes or anything it

has the capacity to run on ketones

immediately and your brain actually

prefers ketones a certain portion of the

brain will always run on glucose okay

one third of the brain but two-thirds of

the brain runs on ketones and what’s

unique about the brain is that 23% of

all the energy that you generate is used

by the brain so why is this significant

okay well here’s the thing when you

start a ketogenic plan you want to feel

better right you don’t want to have

mental dullness you want to have high

powered energy you want to have focus

you want have a lot of energy but if

you’re getting brain fog mental fatigue

depression or any lowered emotional

state realize that there’s just not

enough ketones

available as the fuel source it’s not

that your brain needs to adapt and it

takes time if the ketones are there

it’ll suck it right up okay so ketones

come from endogenous sources which means

that your body can make them by lowering

your carbohydrate okay so let me show

you in this section right here what

determines how many ketones are in the

brain is your blood ketone level okay it

needs to be high and what determines

this is the amount of insulin it still

needs to be normal but it needs to be on

the low side and but glucose needs to be

low okay so these two right here will

determine how many ketones and it does

take some time it could take three to

five days for this to start to really

develop and actually break down your fat

more efficiently but the point is that

the more ketones you have in the blood

the brain will be able to have them

available to start working and the brain

does not have to

gapped it doesn’t take time and the

reason I’m telling you that is that you

can very easily assist this process by

either taking some ketones for a few

days or MCT oil okay which will help you

generate more ketones faster that way

you can have brain energy right away and

that would be the other source is

exogenous outside the body you can get

them as ketone salts or MCT oil things

like that and as a side note an infant

can absorb ketones 15 times faster than

an adult and this is a survival

mechanism because of this the the brain

needs a lot of energy to work so to help

the brain survive it has a mechanism to

absorb both types of fuel and especially

as that infants brain is developing it

needs fuel as a priority now what’s

interesting is that the part of the

brain that uses ketones is a cerebral

cortex a hypothalamus the pituitary and

the pineal gland and this is why a lot

of people start improving their

cognitive function okay because of this

right here if they have memory problems

dementia or neuro degeneration or

Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s or any type

of damage with the brain they’re not

going to be able to absorb glucose

efficiently the cool thing is that

ketones bypass the whole mechanism and

drive fuel right into certain parts of

the brain the hypothalamus the pituitary

the pineal our endocrine glands okay and

so ketones feed the endocrine system

it’s very very important to restore

endocrine hormone function through

ketosis as well as the autonomic nervous

system that is a combination between the

sympathetic and the parasympathetic and

that’s another reason why people that

have problems with this system they’re

too much in like stress mode like

they’re in flight or fight or they can’t

sleep when they go get into ketosis they

do better in fact a tremendous amount of

ketones go to the pituitary and pineal

okay Peniel helps you sleep so in

summary if you wanted to prevent the

brain fog or the Aikido fatigue NCT oil

is gonna be a really good idea also if

you personally or know of someone who

has Alzheimer’s or any type of memory

problems MCT oil and also exogenously

tones as a way to supplement and speed

up the results of getting more ketones

into that brain thanks for watching so

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